Abstract
This research aims at providing bench marks to consider the appropriate forms for making "Quality Karte, design evaluation/diagnosis systems" business. For this purpose an investigation on concepts and activities concerning design support/promotion, management form etc. of design centers in foreign countries and domestic design support organizations was undertaken. A database with about 530 data was constructed. By analyzing them, it might be possible to categorize the organizations from different aspects and extract some patterns. For the next step making 3 types of models is intended: "business environment", "regional alliances" and "organization".
